Dark Bilious Vapors

But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors....
--Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy: Meditation I

05/19/2005: Fun with license plates....

Karen's already had her fun for the day with vanity plates. However, if you want to have some more amusement with them, hie thyself over to The Smoking Gun and enter "vanity plates" into the search engine there. TSG has done several features on vanity plates that some people have found offensive. My favorite salacious license plate, however, isn't a vanity plate. This is an honest to God plate issued by the duly constituted authorities of The Great State of Florida: